Personal Development

Leading Change Masterclass (3-hour live online workshop)
Develop approaches to manage and minimise resistance to change becoming an effective leader in change.

Negotiating Change (2-hour live online workshop)
This online course will support you to enable people to engage with change more easily.

UCL Change Management Resources (Online resource hub)
On this site you can find out more about change management and how you can manage change personally and at an organisational level through eLearning, webinars, Change Management toolkits and additional resources.

Building a Growth Mindset Masterclass (3-hour live online workshop)
Explore how to nurture teams to develop growth thinking that will enable them to take on new challenges, bring up new initiatives and foster innovation throughout their organisation.

Goodbye Perfect (2-hour live online workshop) 
This online bite-sized course will help you adjust your mindset if you have a tendency towards 'perfectionism' and procrastination.

Self-Awareness for Managers Masterclass (2-hour live online workshop)
Improve self-awareness and recognise the benefits it can bring to teams and organisations and develop Emotional Intelligence as part of your leadership approach.

Working Smarter - Creating the Right Mindset (Self-paced)
Tools to help you have positive team conversations and develop personal strategies to control and influence things that concern you.

The Art of Storytelling Masterclass (2-hour live online workshop)
Communicate effectively and discover a more powerful way of engaging with people at work, communicating beyond the facts and appealing to people's emotions.

Assertiveness: Essential Skills for Being More Assertive - Part 1 (90-minute live online session)
Tips and techniques for being more assertive and using a more confident approach when developing productive working relationships.

Assertiveness: Practising Being More Assertive - Part 2 (90-minute live online workshop)
Following on from Essential Skills for Being More Assertive, this practical session will support you in exploring healthy and unhealthy assertiveness in different scenarios that we often come across at UCL

Facilitation: Essential Skills for Facilitation - Part 1 (90-minute live online session)
Learn how to confidently facilitate virtual and in-person meetings by learning the key skills and qualities of a great facilitator, understanding the difference between teaching, mentoring, coaching and facilitating, and practising the art of being a great listener.

Facilitation: Practising Facilitation - Part 2 (90-minute live online workshop)
Following on from Essential Skills for Facilitation, this practical workshop will explore a range of different facilitation scenarios that we would often come across when facilitating inclusive meetings in UCL and identify both good practice and not so good practice in these situations.

Handling Conflict: Essential Skills for Handling Conflict - Part 1 (90-minute live online session)
In a busy working environment, internal conflicts can be detrimental to morale and business results. Learn essential skills and practical strategies for effectively resolving workplace conflict.

Handling Conflict: Practising Conflict Handling - Part 2 (90-minute live online workshop)
Following on from Essential Skills for Handling Conflict, explore different conflict scenarios, and identify good practice.

Listening Skills (2-hour live online workshop)
This session will introduce the power of active listening and share some top tips for improving our listening skills.

Managing Up (2-hour live online workshop)
Strategies for having more productive outcomes with senior stakeholders where time is of the essence and differences in personalities and working preferences are at play.

Project Management Essentials (self-paced)
This self-paced course is designed to build broad awareness of project management principles and practice at UCL, and is based on the UCL Project Management Framework.

Self-Awareness for Managers Masterclass (2-hour live online workshop)
Improve your self-awareness and recognise the benefits it can bring to teams and organisations. Discover Emotional Intelligence as a leadership approach and explore how the stories people tell about us (and how they differ from our own self-perception) are key to creating a high-performance work culture.

Strategic Thinking Masterclass (3-hour live online workshop)
Discover the corner stones of strategy and strategic thinking, using group work and discussions to apply these theories to your own organisation and area of responsibility.

Building Resilience (1-hour live online session)
Gain an understanding of emotional resilience and some tips for building our resilience.

Enabling Psychological Safety (2-hour live online workshop)
Understand what grows or diminishes safety in meetings, teams and groups. Discover the indicators that reveal there is low safety and learn practical things you can do to increase psychological safety in your workplace

Leading Wellbeing Conversations (4-hour live online workshop)
Aimed at line managers, this half-day session is designed to give an overview of the mental health and wellbeing issues you may face in the workplace, offer guidance for connecting with colleagues who may be experiencing wellbeing issues, and provide practical tools for promoting positive wellbeing.

Looking after your Mental Health (1-hour live online session)
This session will cover a brief understanding of emotional health and some top tips and tools to look after our mental health.

Managing Your Own Self-Care and Wellbeing (self-paced)
Techniques, tools and tips that may have a positive impact on your mental wellbeing.

Mental Health Awareness (2-hour live online workshop)
Build a better understanding of what ‘mental health’ means to us, become familiar with the key signs and symptoms to look out for in ourselves and our colleagues, and learn where to find support for yourself and others.

Mental Health Training for Managers (self-paced)
This course is designed to equip managers with the essential knowledge and tools needed to support the mental health and wellbeing of their teams.

Reducing Stress (1-hour live online session)
Learn to recognise the signs of stress and gain some tips for reducing our level of stress.

Stress Awareness (2-hour live online workshop)
Explore what causes us stress and how we may respond. Gain an increased awareness of how to reduce stress and how to support others, and learn tips to manage our stress levels.

Supporting Others (self-paced)
How do we help others? Explore the common themes to consider when supporting others with their wellbeing in the workplace.

Wellbeing Conversations: Guidance for Managers (self-paced)
Managing people requires a variety of skills. Explore the legal side of mental wellbeing and best practice approaches to starting conversations.

What I want my colleagues to know about menopause (self-paced)
Improve your understanding of menopause in the workplace and better support colleagues.

Working Smarter Series (self-paced)
Practical tools that can make a difference to the way you work. Auto enrol for all of the Working Smarter Series or select individual modules from the list below: 

• Creating space for important work (self-paced)
  Tools to help you build an effective personal workflow and feel more in control of your time.

• Make email work for you with Inbox Zero (self-paced)
  Manage your email more effectively, feeling in control of your work.

• Prioritising the right things (self-paced)
  Tools to help you effectively prioritise your work, leaving space for the things which really matter.

• Creating the Right Mindset (self-paced)
  Tools to help you have positive team conversations and develop personal strategies to control and influence things that concern you.